The auncient Neo-Assirie ceety o Sikan is on the soothren edge o the mund at Ras el 'Ayn. Its location is near the modren-day Tell el Fakhariya, whaur a famous Neo-Assirie statue o Adad-it'i/Hadd-yith'i, the keeng o Guzana an Sikan wis discovered in the 1970s, with a bilingual inscription in the Assirie dialect o Akkadian an Aramaic, the earliest Aramaic inscription.[4][5][6][7] The statue wis inscribit as a votive object tae Hadad, whose name the donor bore. It is generally datit tae aroond 850 BC, though an 11t century BC date haes been proposed an aw.[8]